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Horizontal transfers from the wild grass-infecting pathogen population are driving genome evolution of the rice blast fungus @kamounlab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #FungalGRC24

Check out the work led by the great Talia Backman

Thanks to MicrobeTV and TWiM Team for highlighting our tailocin Science Magazine paper on the podcast tinyurl.com/y85b2xn9 A collaborative work between UCL Biosciences CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution @MPI_Bio UCL Faculty of Life Sciences University of Utah School of Biological Sciences (tkarasovlab.org) Min 22:37

Our new collaborative work published in Molecular Biology and Evolution co-led by Cristina Barragan The Sainsbury Laboratory & Sergio Latorre CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Biosciences UCL Faculty of Life Sciences tinyurl.com/m852vndb

Hi friends, check out the version Molecular Biology and Evolution of our recent work. A case of horizontal transfer of an entire miniChr in the rice blast fungus CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Biosciences The Sainsbury Laboratory Cristina Barragan Sophien Kamoun Thorsten Langner Yu Sugihara Joe Win Angus Malmgren Adeline Harant

The 2nd part of this podcast has a really great description of our most recent paper! Great job on the podcast and thanks for sharing MicrobeTV

The final version of our Fusarium review is now online! First time contributing to composite review figures—huge thanks to Amey Redkar and all the co-authors for this opportunity! Also big thanks to the AR illustration team for polishing our submission 😊 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Very nice work by Sojung Han Martin Kuhlwilm Aida Andrés, revealing genetic divergence among bonobo populations that is deeper than previously thought, and evidence of strong isolation Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

I'm pleased to share that I will be speaking at The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on the 29th-30th of January 2025 at ExCeL London. Registration is free for over 90% of attendees - register now to join me in January. hubs.la/Q02TpxPP0 #FOG2025

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Our review paper on the evolution of tailocins got the cover of Trends in Microbiology tinyurl.com/5665979b with Talia Backman and Talia Karasov (tkarasovlab.org) UCL Biosciences CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Faculty of Life Sciences University of Utah School of Biological Sciences

Welcome to Rafal Gutaker Rafal Gutaker who has joined our Editorial Board as an Editorial Advisor. We are very pleased to have him join our team! Rafal studies population genomics, ancient DNA, and crop adaptation and environmental interaction. sites.google.com/view/rafalplan…

From lesions to lessons:  2025 marks the 20th anniversary of filamentous plant pathogen genomics. In our new review, we present lessons we learned over the past 2 decades and discuss the future of plant pathogen genomics. Take a first look! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Thanks for having me at #pint25 Great discussing #evolution and #pandemics with such a wonderful audience Pint of Science UK UCL CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Biosciences

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining ZMBP as a Junior Group Leader in October 2025! My lab will explore the functional and structural diversity of plant immune receptors. 1/2 #NewPI #PlantImmunity #NLRs #PlantScience #StructuralBiology

How Rice Blast Fungus stays one step ahead? I'll talk about the evolutionary dynamics of its pangenome. Whether you're into evolutionary insights, curious about methods, or just love a good fungal story, swing by my poster: * P-280 * Tuesday, 9:55-11 :30 #2025ISMPMI